Underdog Rise Short Dramas
2,346 short dramas in Underdog Rise — synopsis, ratings and where to watch.
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This Cultivator Weds a Beauty CEOA powerful cultivator leaves his mountain sect because overcoming heavenly trials is not enough; he must also survive a mortal one. Walking into the wrong blind-date room leads him to a beautiful CEO and an immediate marriage. The crises that follow give him repeated chances to use his mystic arts to protect his wife, complete the tribulation, and turn an accident into real love.
I Time-Traveled for Power! Not 108 Children!Elara Voss accidentally time-traveled into a novel as a character who dies right after appearing. She wants to rewrite her destiny, not to have 108 Serpent Clan children. Will she be able to pull those twists and turns?
The Rise of a Hidden MasterSeven years ago, Kael's uncle murdered his parents, stole his inheritance, and threw him off a cliff to die. At the bottom, he discovered a dusty old martial arts scripture and spent seven years mastering it—never realizing the dusty old "breathing techniques" he's been practing was actually a long-lost legendary technique.
When Kael finally returns to avenge his parents and claim his fiancée, he's mocked as a useless nobody who can't even cultivate. But everything changes when the strongest warriors in the North suddenly fall to their knees and call him "Master."
Now every clan wants him dead. Every beauty wants his heart. And the entire martial world believes Kael is an invincible hidden grandmaster.
The only problem? Kael is pretty sure they've got the wrong guy.
In 1988, I Built a Military EmpireChen Feijin, a aerospace academician, is reborn into 1988. Taking over a dying factory, he uses future military knowledge to make mortars from gas tanks, sell ICBMs, build Wuling pickups, and fund black-tech research. A tech tycoon on the surface but a secret arms baron, he finally leads Longguo to the stars.
Paid Me Pennies? I Took It All Back!The garage belongs to his cousin, who decides at the end of the year how the money gets split. Five years of work in it came to fifty thousand for him, and he took it without arguing.
He bought an abandoned repair shop after that, without telling anyone, and opened it as his own business. His cousin took the new shop badly and started getting in his way wherever he could, and when that did not work he paid men to come round and cause trouble on the premises. He dealt with each of those himself.
Reborn: Sugar Made Me a Legend!A modern soul wakes up as a notorious wastrel in an ancient realm. He invents refined sugar to rescue his family from trouble, earns great wealth and royal recognition. Using his wisdom, will he keep forging extraordinary achievements across the land?
My Smartphone Changed HistoryStruck by lightning at an ancient tomb, a modern man wakes up in the first empire with a smartphone that can access the future. As he reveals centuries of history to the ruler, they race to rewrite a doomed fate. But can foreknowledge truly change destiny?
(Dubbed) My Five Aunts Have SuperpowersA man goes to live with his five aunts. In his room, he unexpectedly finds an old pair of glasses. They give him a system that allows him to see through things. After gaining this power, his aunts start to run into trouble one by one. How will he help them? At the same time, he also meets the girl of his dreams. Will they end up together?
My Five Aunts Have SuperpowersA man goes to live with his five aunts. In his room, he unexpectedly finds an old pair of glasses. They give him a system that allows him to see through things. After gaining this power, his aunts start to run into trouble one by one. How will he help them? At the same time, he also meets the girl of his dreams. Will they end up together?
What? Flash Married a Billionaire?To escape a forced marriage, CEO Serena grabs a random brick-hauler to be her fake husband. She thinks she's sheltering a broke loser, but he's actually Declan Vance, the Capital's most terrifying billionaire heir! When the ruthless Sterlings attack, Declan secretly crushes every threat. But what happens when his mask finally drops?
No Doom. Just Me, God.The future tyrant? Still a trembling girl. The ultimate beast? Locked in a cage. The system gave this guy a three‑year head start on hell on earth. But what if that hell never crashes the party… and he’s already unstoppable anyway?
CEO of Leeching? No, Music God!Jiang Chen means to live off Su Luowei. She is a household name, he has no interest in working, and he keeps the rest of himself out of sight so the arrangement can hold.
He was at the top of the entertainment industry in his last life and he came back from it with a fear of the business he cannot talk himself out of. So he writes at home, turns down everything, and lets people take him for idle. Then a sheet of his handwritten lyrics gets out. It is good enough that people want the name behind it, and Chenwei Media, which is in the middle of losing its footing, pulls him in on the strength of it.
He starts putting out singles. A rival company leans on Chenwei and other people in the business come at him in the open, and he answers with more releases. He is publishing under a pen name on the literary side at the same time, and he ends up running the music side of the company he had been trying to stay out of.
Reborn as a Tiler? Watch Me Rise!A transported youth spends three years tiling a legendary mountain and befriends the monkey king imprisoned there. Believing the Heavenly Emperor is his father exposes a divine conspiracy, after which the Emperor turns him into a weapon for a counterattack. Marriage to a fox spirit and victories over demons give the supposed laborer a chance to wreck the gods' design.
A Face Stolen, Hearts BetrayedSurgeon Claudia loses both her father and adopted sister Reina just after Reina finds her wealthy birth family. A mysterious man, Rory, pressures Claudia into taking Reina’s face and identity so she can enter the family and hunt their killers. Their dangerous alliance grows intimate as they navigate conspiracies and mistrust, leaving Claudia unsure whether Rory is her partner or another threat.
The Racing Legend Drives a Taxi Now!Carson Voss, once a top racer, saves Freya Colton on a fast ride to the airport. After learning his former disciple has turned rogue, he decides to return to the racing world. To reclaim his title, he must retrieve four powerful artifacts. With the first one in hand, can Carson reclaim his legacy?
I Made 4 Demons My BoyfriendsHer boyfriend and bestie killed her into a nightmare dimension. Now she's got four demon kings fighting over her, an apocalypse on Earth, and zero regrets. Hell sent its worst; she sent them back in love. The world isn't ready for a queen with a monster harem. And She's bringing her harem home to save the world!
Caught in the ActRachel, a housewife who had lost her child, frequently dreamed of her husband Anthony being unfaithful. To ease her doubts, she sought out a "detective" named Bryan to uncover the truth, only to discover...
Leaving The Toxic Family BehindReturning home for the holidays, she discovers her father’s secret affair and gets kicked out with her mother. Instead of breaking, they fight back! From standing up to heartless relatives to launching a massive livestream business, they reclaim their power. She helps her mother find a new purpose and uncovers a life-changing secret, leaving the toxic father with nothing but regret.
(Dubbed) No Scheming: I See EverythingCheated on and expelled from his own home, an ordinary man suddenly develops psychic abilities. He applies them to lotteries, stock trades, and valuable jade, building a fortune while settling accounts with those who humiliated him. His rapid rise provokes an enemy whose repeated plots turn financial success into an escalating personal war.
Back at Eight: The Football LegendWhen legendary football King Thomas wakes up in the body of his 8-year-old great-grandson Theo, he faces a Dracoland football under siege by corrupt owners and match-fixers. Leading Evergreen FC against ruthless rivals and foreign invaders, can the King reclaim glory and expose the shadows lurking behind the beautiful game?
Chef's Revenge: Betrayal Turned EmpireTwo friends own a restaurant together, and it clears 5 million yuan a year. Wang Ting keeps all of it. She hands her partner Li Jia, a single mother who does the cooking, 100,000 for her share and humiliates her while she does it.
Li Jia's daughter needs heart surgery. Li Jia takes the 100,000 and opens a place of her own called Jiaji. She runs it honestly and it fills up with customers. Wang Ting's kitchen has lost its main cook, and she starts skimping on ingredients and undercutting prices, and her restaurant goes downhill. She then turns to poisoning, and after that sets fire to Jiaji. Li Jia's daughter has still not had her operation.
Beg Me Back, Watch Them CrySophia wants the family she was born to. She was swapped at birth and spent ten years elsewhere before returning to the Graysons. Olivia holds the place of heiress there and does not intend to give it up, and she works against Sophia from the start. Sophia is betrayed and serves three years in prison.
She comes out working as an artist under the name S.G. Tristan protects her while she brings out what happened in the past. She turns down the Grayson money. Olivia makes one last attempt on her. Sophia leaves for Paris.
(Dubbed) Born to DominateYannick Young thought he was just another weak disciple. But when he aces a deadly sect trial, the truth hits—he’s anything but ordinary. Jealous rivals, secret mentors, and ancient enemies stand in his way. Is he ready to claim the power he never knew he had?
Regretting Her Hidden CEO ExNi Sheng had one place to study abroad and gave it to his girlfriend Lin Qingqing, and they agreed to marry when she came back. Over the next six years he built a technology company. Lin Qingqing returned changed. She listened to Fang Zhe, a close male friend, who insulted Ni Sheng in front of other people over how poor he appeared to be, and she took Fang Zhe's side against him again and again. Ni Sheng ended it and turned to Tang Xi, a younger woman who had cared about him for years. Fang Zhe then pushed Lin Qingqing into stealing a company patent for a jellyfish stem cell skincare product. Ni Sheng laid a trap for them, and both ended up facing the police. Lin Qingqing asked him to forgive her by then.
Back for Blood!Shen Ming built his power overseas, far from the family he left behind, and he only comes home because his grandfather has died suddenly. Two things wait for him there. One is the question of how the old man actually died. The other is an arranged engagement to Wei Nanying of the Wei family, a match his grandfather set up years earlier. The Wei household treats the returning grandson as a poor relation with nothing to his name, and they say so openly at the table. Shen Ming answers the insults with the force he has at his disposal, and the family that mocked him begins losing ground fast. He also finds an ally in Chu Yan of the Chu family, a businesswoman with her own reasons to move against the Weis, and the two of them work together against the interests protecting the household. The digging into his grandfather's death keeps circling back toward the same house he is supposed to marry into. The man who ordered the killing is Wei Donghai, head of the Wei family and the father of the woman he is engaged to. Shen Ming has to decide what the engagement is worth to him now, with the debt for his grandfather still unpaid and the person who owes it sitting across from him at family dinners.
Ms. CEO's Invincible GuardSecurity guard Calvin just wants to save his sister. But after saving a poisoned CEO, he's dragged into her world of corporate wars, assassins, and a mysterious family hunting him for a secret in his blood. Now he must choose: keep hiding, or unleash the dragon within to protect both his sister and the woman who changed everything.
All Damage Makes Me StrongerCentenarian loser cultivator Cassian, discarded by his clan and used by the poisoned Saintess as an antidote—left dying from the process—awakens the Karma Reversal System: all harm converts to cultivation. By swallowing poison and taking damage, he rapidly rises—avenging himself, earning elders' favor, and catching the eyes of multiple saintesses. From trash to Tiger Peak Saint Son, he slaps down rivals in this hilarious, high-energy fantasy hit.
Shattered Keys: The Heiress's RevengeDragged to her ruthless family, a hidden heiress is brutally tortured by fakes. With crippled hands, she endures the agony to avenge her mother. Finding a lost god-tier symphony, she crashes the grand inheritance concert! Playing a flawless masterpiece, she exposes her enemies. Will she burn the cruel legacy and claim her throne?
My System Never Loses MoneyJasper travels to a parallel world and awakens the Profit Cheat System. His sister Jovie, struggling to raise 300,000 for his college tuition, enters an arranged engagement. At the engagement banquet, Jasper turns the tables, arriving with a 3 million luxury car and a dowry worth 30 million in gold, humiliating the groom’s family and calling off the engagement. He takes his sister and walks away.
With system-powered insight, he wins lottery jackpots, multiplies his fortune through futures trading, invests in unfinished real estate, builds businesses across industries, and rises from nobody to a powerful tycoon and national figure.
Heavenly Sword, Mortal FateReborn into a weak outcast’s body, the legendary Sword Saint begins his journey again—to rise, protect his mother, and reclaim his place at the top of the martial world.
Claim What's MineAt 18, Hannah Caldwell is adopted by the Caldwell family, only to be betrayed by her sister Juliet and imprisoned for ten years. After her release, she flees to Paris, leaving behind a life of pain. Five years later, she returns as Vivian Warren—stronger, fiercer, and ready for justice. But can she truly reclaim her life, or will the past haunt her forever?
Queen of MusicThe once nationwide sensation, the Mask Diva, retired for twenty years to return to family life, only to face rejection and betrayal from her husband and children.
Weird Rules: I Hear Everything's VoiceSeven years ago a black rain fell and pulled people into dungeons that run on stated rules. Lin Han, who has late-stage brain cancer and is dying of it, is taken into a training ground for those dungeons. There he finds he can hear the voices of objects, which tell him things the rules hide. He uses that and works out where the rules are lying to him, and he clears the trials built around greed and around envy. Surviving them cures the cancer. His parents then fall seriously ill, and to save them he enters a harder dungeon shaped as an old opera troupe. Inside it he meets Liu Xiyan, an heir of the troupe. The dungeon's last trial is the Mortal Guide test, and what the test actually is turns out to be the truth about where the dungeons came from. Passing it makes him a guide who can cross between the two worlds.
One Touch, Instant God Skills!Fang wants an ordinary life to become something better than ordinary, and he has no way to make that happen. He is a young man with no job and nothing in particular going for him.
Then chests start appearing around the city, floating in ordinary places, and he is the only person who can see them or touch them. Opening one is not simple. He has to keep his palm flat against it for ten full seconds, and if anything interrupts him in that time, the chest is gone and so is whatever was inside. What comes out varies. Sometimes a practical skill, sometimes a tool he could not have bought, sometimes a rare material.
He works through the chests one at a time, taking whatever each one gives him and using it on whatever is in front of him in the city.
Daddy's Girl on LockCherry's father is a billionaire who dotes on his daughter past the point of reason. Cherry herself lives in Riverton and practises a healing art that is forbidden, one that can bring a body back from the edge of death, and she uses it mostly on animals.
The daughter of an old friend of her father's arrives and starts finding fault with everything Cherry does, and then accuses her outright. Close behind her comes a young woman the family calls its chosen daughter, who has come to take Cherry's place in the household. Cherry's disciples say they will protect her with their lives. In the middle of this her father is struck with a gu poison, and even with that in his body he goes on doting on Cherry.
Marry Me? We’re Bonded Siblings!Evan Lynn crosses over into a world of cultivators and wakes up with a system attached to him. Every beautiful woman who swears a sibling bond with him adds to his strength.
The first thing that happens to him there is that the holy maiden he is engaged to breaks off the engagement in front of everyone. He surprises them all by getting her to swear a sibling bond with him, and his power goes up. Some time after that the princess of Great Qian offers him her heart. He smiles and tells her that they should become sworn siblings first. By now he has started his climb from the mortal world towards the highest realm. Then a woman from a demonic sect comes at him with strength he cannot match. He raises the Sword of the Immortals and proposes that they swear the bond first and fight afterwards.
I Hacked the Emperor's MemoryLane finds himself in the body of a rebel leader about to be skinned alive by Emperor Julian. At the moment of death, he activates the Memory Rewrite System, implanting a false memory of his parents saving Julian with half a sweet potato during a deadly snow famine. That single memory flips everything. Julian starts protecting him, believing Lane is tied to his past salvation. From condemned rebel to the Emperor’s “trusted insider,” Lane rises overnight. Using imperial power as his weapon, he crushes corrupt officials and turns survival into a ruthless rise to the top of the Dawn Empire.
Bye Bye, Fake Family!Andy Wong grew up an orphan and wanted a family of his own. He married Zoe Teo and gave way to her parents in everything, running a small business and paying the pension contributions for his mother-in-law and father-in-law out of his own money. At the New Year's Eve dinner the mother-in-law handed red envelopes to every grandchild in the room except Andy and Zoe's daughter, and said the girl did not count because a daughter's child is not family. Andy refused to keep paying the pension money. Zoe took her mother's side, and they divorced. Zoe moved back into her mother's house and found she was treated coldly there. She understood then that her husband and her daughter had been the family, and she went back to try to repair it, starting by learning to think of herself first.
My Beggar Groom Is A BillionaireWhen Mr. CEO Charles disguised as a beggar finds true love, his ex exposes his "poverty" to the bride's family. Now his wedding procession is blocked by an angry mob while his bride is being told he abandoned her and forced to marry another! Can he reveal his true identity before she says "I do" to the wrong man?
I Butchered My Way to PowerHarvey was once called the finest sword talent of the Astral Sword Sect. Then his sword bones were destroyed and taken, and the sect threw him out. He ended up on the edge of a market town running a slaughterhouse, killing pigs for a living, with no cultivation left and nobody expecting anything of him. Killing turns out to be the thing that awakens what comes next: a system that converts slaughter into cultivation, so the butchering that was supposed to be his humiliation rebuilds his sword path one animal at a time. Princess Fiona, born into the royal house and looking for a way out of what that requires of her, recruits him. Harvey goes with her and keeps his strength hidden, letting people take him for the failure he was, and then settling accounts one at a time. He beats the sect's leading disciple. He goes down into the Sword Tomb after what is buried there. He faces a man turned demon. Behind all of it sits the matter of who ordered his bones cut out and why the sect covered for them.
My Supplies Made Her a Queen!Ewan Lynn and General Shawna Quinn know each other only through a battered Bronze Coffer. It belonged to Ewan's grandmother, and he found it after the Lynn family threw him out. Anything he puts inside arrives in another time, at the frontier pass where Shawna is holding on with what is left of her army. Her soldiers are cold and short of food. Barbarians press the pass from outside, and the Imperial Court has left her there without support. Ewan sends clothing, medicine, food, weapons and machines through the box. Shawna comes to believe the sender is the Divine One.
The help from a distance turns into a rescue that puts lives on the line. The ruined city behind the pass starts to come back. They also begin moving against the Imperial Court. The barrier between their two times, which until then only the box could cross, comes down.
(Dubbed) The Dragon FatherThey used to call him Nine-Tattoo Dragon. Chen Ye put that down eighteen years ago for a wife and a daughter, and he has been fixing cars in a repair shop ever since. His daughter Nian Nian has grown up bright and turns eighteen. On the night of her birthday her classmate Xiao Ying sets her up, and Wang Chao, who has money behind him, humiliates her. She lies to her parents about it and keeps the rest to herself, because she knows what her father used to be and does not want to drag him back into it. Wang Chao is not finished. He drives to the repair shop at night to push at the old man for sport, and what has been asleep in Chen Ye for eighteen years wakes up while a car is still on the lift. Afterward he moves the shop to a lot beside his daughter's university so he can be within walking distance of her, and Wang Chao's family, the Hongsheng group, is not the sort to let a mechanic embarrass them.
Yeah, I Rule with InstrumentsIn a world of powerful awakeners and fierce beasts, everyone awakens legendary weapons. I, however, awaken two ordinary instruments. Dismissed as a useless support, I unleash terrifying souls with my melodies, surrounding beasts in an instant. No one expects this "support" to hold such horrifying power. What truly lies behind my instruments?
A Ring Made Me King of the OceanJacob, an ordinary fisherman, fled with Liliana after her husband Griffin skipped town on a gambling debt. During a sea chase, Jacob used a fake gun to buy three days from a creditor. He found a mysterious ring granting ocean power, cleared the debt, and allied with a powerful leader. Mistaken as Griffin's accomplice by warlord Cyrus, Jacob repelled an entire fleet. After saving Nora from sharks and defeating a champion, he earned Neil's support—and began hunting Griffin.
The Abandoned GeniusEva is an expert who believes intelligence is something you are born with. A test came back saying her twin son Leon was retarded, so she treated him accordingly and praised the other twin, Noah, who is average. The test was faulty. Before an important exam Eva locked Leon up. He got out, sat the exam, scored full marks, and was then framed over it and ran. He went abroad. Years later he comes back as Prof L, a name out of Wall Street that nobody can put a face to, and solves a puzzle at a summit that no one else can. Eva and Noah accuse him in public. He tells them who he is and shows the diagnostic error for what it was. Eva loses the belief she built her life on and kneels to ask his forgiveness. He refuses it and goes on to redefine how education is done.
The Layoff That BackfiredHaving worked for eight years, designer Ethan Sullivan got laid off right before his company won a 4.8 billion big contract. He staged a stunning comeback and secured a tens-of-billions project, making those opportunists pay for their misdeeds and forging an inspiring career success story.
Try Me, Boys.Born unwanted into a family that favors sons, a girl secretly masters martial arts. She shames elite rivals, exposes a master's dark crimes, and gains her legendary mentor's ultimate blessing. Just as she abolishes old rules and saves a clan in crisis, she sets a final challenge for every man. But will they dare to face her?
Married a CEO, Reclaimed My LegacyNathan wants the life his ex took with her when she left him. What he gets instead is a rushed marriage to Claudia, a CEO who is running from an arranged marriage to Lex Norrington. Claudia helps him look into where he came from, and Nathan learns he is the missing heir of the Norrington family. That puts him in the middle of a fight over the inheritance. He works under the name Cipher, an AI genius nobody has matched to a face, and he uses it to dig up the past that was taken from him and to go after the people who took it.
Reborn: I Refuse to Be Their ATMDylan spent his first life paying for the Mo family. He funded his fiancee Molly's university years, he covered her younger brother's gambling debts as they came, and when there was nothing else left he sold his blood for the money. It ended with him ill and broke on the street and his parents gone. He opens his eyes at the door of a back-alley clinic, on the day Molly is telling him to go in and sell blood again for her brother, and he says no. He walks back into their house and takes his things, the bicycle he bought them and his family's jade bracelet, and he calls off the engagement in front of everyone there. Then he starts working. He knows what the coming years do to prices, so he begins by buying up yellow peaches, and from there he fixes a production problem nobody at the plant can solve, gets around a deputy director who is skimming, sets up a cooperative and pushes it toward shareholding. Xu Xiaoting, a Peking University student, is around for most of it.
Born to Rise: A Dragon’s Ultimate FateThe dragon clan spends the last of its bloodline energy hatching an egg and gets what it takes for a defective dragon, calling him a lizard. He is in fact a lifeguard from another time who woke up in that body in the primordial world. The Ancestral Dragon Pearl picks him as its master, which ties the fortune of the whole clan to a dragon nobody in it respects.
He falls into an abyss, eats demon beasts down there, and works his way up to a ninth-rank true dragon. The phoenix clan attacks. The heavenly court moves to seal him, and his relatives are held in a prison beneath the sea. He uses the Ancestral Dragon bloodline to break the seal, and sets about restoring the clan and dividing the Four Seas.
Reborn Rich by Spending on My Wives!Betrayed and fallen low, a man accidentally unlocks a rewarding spending system. He gains huge wealth and meets diverse charming women. Mocked by his ex and her lover, he stuns all with his fortune. Amid tangled romances, can he find his destined love?
My Son Let Me Die For A House!Grace's son and daughter-in-law try to drive her from her old house, then leave her to die during a medical crisis so they can inherit it. Returned to the days before their betrayal, she no longer intends to protect the greedy couple or conceal the darkness buried in the property. This time Grace will defend her home and make them pay for what they did.
Blessed or CursedShelly Quinn, born with good luck, brings fortune to those who treat her well, and misfortune to those who wrong her. Both her husband and brother die due to an accident, leading people and her son to believe she's a "bad omen". She is desperate while she unexpectedly meets president, Tracy Zayas. From that moment on, Tracy’s luck skyrockets.